Area man sentenced in road rage case
A McClellandtown man was sentenced to a total of two to four years in prison on Monday in two aggravated assault cases. Robert Gregory Wilson, 28, entered pleas in the cases last week before Fayette County Judge Ralph C. Warman.
In 2006, Wilson was charged in a road rage incident near the previous Wal-Mart in South Union Township.
State police charged that he fired a shot while he fought with Dewey W. Vaught and Albert Waggett outside the former Wal-Mart on June 2. The shot went into the ground and no one was injured.
Vaught, of Hopwood, testified previously he was headed along the road past the McDonald’s restaurant and Staples to the stop sign that entered into the Kmart Super Center parking lot.
He testified he stopped his vehicle at the sign for several minutes and heard a horn blow from behind.
Vaught testified he made a left turn, heading toward Parkvale Bank, and Wilson yelled out the passenger side window of the car. Vaught testified his wife yelled a racial slur back.
As they pulled in front of Wal-Mart, where Vaught was picking up his wife’s mother, he testified that Wilson drove up and got out of the car. At some point, police said, Wilson and the vehicle’s driver switched places.
Vaught testified Wilson punched him several times while he was sitting inside his vehicle, and when Lynn Vaught got out to intervene, she testified, Wilson hit her in the head.
Dewey Vaught testified he and his daughter’s fianc?, Albert Waggett, started fighting with Wilson after that. During that fight, Vaught testified that Wilson retrieved a gun from the car, and as they struggled, the gun went off.
In the second case, Wilson assaulted two Uniontown police officers on Dec. 14, 2004, in Pershing Court in the city.
He had pleaded guilty in both in April 2007, and last month, a jury deadlocked on Wilson’s guilt in the assault on the officers.
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